Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti mentioned during his exit interview on Monday that he will talk to Lu Dort and Darius Bazley about potential rookie extensions but mention that there is no urgency to get a contract done this offseason.
“We’ll definitely have a conversation on that. I don’t know when that will — those conversations will really kind of pick up, but we will have some different options,” said Presti. “I don’t want to get into all of them, but the most important thing in those situations is trying to understand like where everybody is coming from and you need to work together. That’s always been my experience on any of those situations.”
Presti brought up how the team wants their payroll to stay relatively clean heading into the 2023 offseason due to a potential new CBA agreement between the NBA and NBPA.
